The Atlantic: “you have a constitutional right to own a gun, and you may traffic in firearms with legal impunity; but you risk being imprisoned for buying and selling arguably obscene pornography. And don’t even think about child porn (I mean that literally): possessing obscene cartoon images of imaginary children is a federal offense; so is communicating your sexual fantasies about children to other adults.”
Speaking of child porn, it turns out the fancy new x-ray scanners the Brits are planning on mandating in airports violate the UK’s child protection laws because they create vaguely-sort-of-nude-looking-if-you-squint-just-right images of passengers who pass through them. Our culture is officially absurd.
Since 2004 Candleblog has been the online journal of Vermont filmmaker, Bill Simmon. Bill uses Candleblog as a repository of pop culture ephemera, amusing anecdotes, occasional deep thoughts and anything else he thinks is web-worthy.